Genesis 38:14

Good News Translation

So she changed from the widow's clothes she had been wearing, covered her face with a veil, and sat down at the entrance to Enaim, a town on the road to Timnah. As she well knew, Judah's youngest son Shelah was now grown up, and yet she had not been given to him in marriage.

Cross References

Genesis 24:65

and asked Abraham's servant, “Who is that man walking toward us in the field?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her scarf and covered her face.

Genesis 38:15

When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, because she had her face covered.

Genesis 38:19

Tamar went home, took off her veil, and put her widow's clothes back on.

Genesis 38:26

Judah recognized them and said, “She is in the right. I have failed in my obligation to her—I should have given her to my son Shelah in marriage.” And Judah never had intercourse with her again.

Proverbs 7:10

And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans.

Proverbs 7:12

or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.

Jeremiah 3:2

Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.

Ezekiel 16:25

You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.